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Updated: June 13, 2025
Little pleasure steamers, black with people, are coming and going all the time; and everywhere one sees young girls and young men paddling about in fanciful rowboats, or skimming along by the help of sails when there is any wind.
Skiffs and rowboats could not live in torrents rushing through the city's principal streets. The big plant of the National Cash Register Company was made relief headquarters. As persons were rescued they were taken to a relief sub-station, where their names were recorded and they received first aid.
"I am going there to try my luck," said Joe, he felt he could talk to the old man with confidence. "Goin' to look fer a job, eh?" "Yes, sir." "Wot kin ye do, if I might ask?" "Oh, I'm willing to do most anything. I've been taking care of rowboats and working around a summer hotel, at Lake Tandy." "Well, ye won't git many boats to look at down to Philadelphy!" and the old farmer chuckled.
All day Sunday the indescribable traffic of Port Saïd passes around us; ships of all nations coming and going; a big German Lloyd boat just home from India crowded with troops in khâki, band playing, flags flying; huge dredgers, sombre, oxlike-looking things, with lines of incredibly dirty men in fluttering rags running up the gang-planks with bags of coal on their backs; rowboats shuttling to and fro between the ships and the huddled, transient, modern town, which is made up of curiosity shops, hotels, business houses and dens of iniquity; a row of Egyptian sail boats, with high prows, low sides, long lateen yards, ranged along the entrance to the canal.
Sometimes they took their supper down to the beach and Father Blossom and Bobby built a fire and they had toasted bread and bacon; sometimes they went hunting for beach plums, that odd fruit that grows on tall bushes and which make such delicious jam; sometimes they all went fishing in the two rowboats, Mother Blossom rowing one and Father Blossom the other.
"Will you get us a boat?" "The launch will be back in a few minutes, sir " the man began. "We wish to go at once," said Montague. "Will you let us have one of those rowboats? Otherwise I shall hail that tug." The man hesitated but a moment. Montague's voice was determined, and so he turned and gave orders to lower a small boat.
Sam and Tom had received permission to go to the upper end of the lake in one of the rowboats on the following afternoon. Songbird Powell and Fred Garrison went along, and all took their fishing outfits and plenty of bait. "Bring home a nice mess of fish," said Dick, on parting with his brothers. "Sorry I can't go with you." "Oh, you'll have company enough," declared Sam.
So heavy was the surf in the early morning that the officers and soldiers going ashore had to be carried from the rowboats to the beach on the backs of natives, but it fortunately calmed down enough before we women went over in the afternoon to allow of our entering Dumaguete in a more conventional manner.
The swell that runs after a blow still thundered all along the southeast face of Squitty, bursting boom boom boom against the cliffs, shooting spray in white cascades. Over the Rock the sea boiled. There were two rowboats trolling outside the heavy backwash from the cliffs. MacRae knew them both. Peter Ferrara was in one, Long Tom Spence in the other.
He drew the hotel with wide-spreading Spanish roofs and balconies, and a wide porch with rippling water in front of it, and rowboats and people in them; and behind the hotel rose the broken sky-line of the hills and the trees, with an indication of fleecy clouds above. It was just a light sketch, a sort of shorthand picture, as it were, and yet it seemed full of sunlight and of atmosphere.
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